Cloud migration is the process of essentially migrating the entirety of a company’s digital assets into a cloud server or even from one cloud to another. These assets include all company services, databases, IT resources, and applications. Running a company through a cloud server simply has numerous long-term benefits that positively impact the company’s overall growth.
Listed below are a few of the key perks companies enjoy when running their business through a cloud server.
Hardware migration takes up too much time
Migrating a company’s database is something that happens periodically every few years. In order to stay on top of compliance and have access to the latest and most updated versions of company software, IT professionals will have to constantly upgrade the in-house servers and hardware. This task takes up a lot of time and effort and more often, companies will experience long amounts of downtime while this hardware server migration is happening. Old, legacy IT infrastructures are proving to be more and more outdated and problematic to maintain and upgrade in today’s world of quick and consistent updating. And since the introduction of the cloud, yearly updates can happen on a monthly basis at times. When working on cloud servers, these updates will have little to no impact on downtime and employee productivity. Whereas, when migrating data on legacy servers, employees will essentially have to miss a day of work by simply waiting to have access to their offline systems.
Ease of cloud computing
As mentioned before, when cloud servers update or upgrade, companies and their employees will experience little to no downtime and can continue with their work even from a remote location. This is because cloud servers also usually provide lifetime backup packages for their clients. So, whilst the cloud server upgrade is taking place, employees can simply access their files from the convenient backup and continue working until the upgrade is completely done. Moreover, cloud servers also come in with their own built-in cyber security protocols along with their own compliance factors that benefit their clients as well.
Cloud servers are a revolutionary advancement and have completely changed how companies function on a day-to-day basis. Gone are the days where IT professionals have to spend their weekends migrating the entire business to the latest hardware models, and where shifting to a new office takes days to set up the IT infrastructure. With the introduction of the cloud, the servers can adapt and be optimized to exactly what a business needs with the most minimal of downtime, making migrating to the cloud or even within the cloud a much easier task. Read more about the benefits of cloud services in one of our previous blogs, ‘Top 5 reasons to move from hardware to cloud services’.
